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We are very happy to announce that our Windows 10 SpanishTown app is now available across all of your Windows 10 devices including the Xbox One. What is even better is that you only have to buy it once and it will be available on all of your Windows 10 devices: phones, tablets, laptops, desktops, Surface, Surface Hub, HoloLens and now the Xbox One.

Tenses and Moods

Access hundreds of example verbs and full sentences with audio across a variety of different tenses and moods. Practise for the next exam by using our multiple choice quizzes and fill-in-the-blank worksheets which draw on a database of thousands of different questions.

Grammar Topics

We have loaded the app with a large variety of grammar topics that will help you navigate through those difficult areas. When do you use ser or estar or por or para? What are the rules and exceptions to the gender of nouns? Why is the verb gustar different and why is it so important to understand?

Vocabulary

Learn new Spanish words and listen to the pronunciation. Our vocabulary section is organized by category but you can also search for a specific word either using English and Spanish. We are not a dictionary but we do have hundreds and hundreds of the most common words available, all with audio and the English translation.

Verbs

With over 350 of the most common Spanish verbs available you can look through them, either alphabetically or by using our search feature. Search using the English verb or the Spanish verb. View the verb conjugations for different tenses and moods.

Announcing the Public Beta

We are pleased to announce the public availability our new SpanishTown App for Windows 10 devices.

Try it now for FREE! We are so happy with the app’s progress so far that we have decided to make the beta available now. In fact, we are so confindent, we are willing to give you a 7 day free trial with no strings attached.

Not only do we offer a free trial, we are having a Beta launch sale until the end of December.

We are launching the app with:

Present, Preterite, Imperfect and Future – each full with verb examples for regular, irregular and verbs that change. Includes sample sentences with audio for all the example verbs.

2600+ quiz and worksheet questions to test your knowledge of verbs and give you some practice before a big exam.

300+ verb conjugations for the most common verbs. Search by alphabet, English or Spanish.

Vocabulary – hundreds and hundreds of common words sorted by categories, with audio and fully searchable.

Who is the App For?

We have designed our SpanishTown App for students currently progressing through their Spanish courses. Whether you are starting at the junior high level, senior high or college, you can use our app to help you achieve success throughout your Spanish language learning.

You might have seen some animated short videos popping up on SpanishTown.ca over the last couple of months. As we learn and experiment you will likely see the quality improve. Our first videos were low resolution due to technical issues but we are now able to create them in full 1080p.

The videos are hosted on YouTube where we have our own little channel started. We also embed them into the website either on new pages or with their corresponding vocabulary. If you are watching on YouTube then please subscribe and leave a comment. Let us know what works and what doesn’t so that we can improve them going forward.

Some of the videos will focus on the basic vocabulary while others will be a little more advanced and contain short conversations.

Here is an example of one of our recent videos where we go over the basic shapes in Spanish:

Shapes in Spanish

In this video a family discusses the items they need for a day of fun at the beach. This style of video that is a little more advanced and doesn’t have any translations embedded in the video itself.

La playa

We are committed to producing more of these videos but they do take a considerable investment of time. Please subscribe on YouTube to the our channel. The more we see that number grow the more time we will be investing into producing new videos.

The blog here has been languishing for quite a while but it is not because we haven’t been busy. In fact, we have been so busy that we had no extra time for the blog. Over the next few posts we will be going over some of the changes and additions that we have made to SpanishTown.ca.

Responsive Design

This was and continues to be a real challenge. We have redesigned almost all of our pages so that our visitors can have the best possible experience no matter what device or browser they are using. After testing on different devices, screens sizes, and browsers we are mostly confident that the site should work whether you use a smartphone, tablet or PC running Chrome, Safari, IE, Firefox or Opera. These browsers cover 94% of our visitors to SpanishTown.ca.